With the University Library homepage redesign, the LAUC-D website transition
did not go well.New URL is http://laucd.lib.ucdavis.edu A redirect
will be provided from http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/LAUCD to this new
address.These redirects will be kept
for a while.Bob Heyer-Gray will notify
LAUC statewide of the web address change. Thanks to Diana King, LAUC-D web
manager, who had a huge amount of tedious work to change the 185 webpage links
on the LAUC-D website.

b. i. Activities Faire

Discussed and felt that it was not pertinent to LAUC-D but more a University
Library promotional opportunity

Brief discussion of whether library schools attend the UCD Career Fair. Teresa
Dillinger talked with Ruth Gustafson at a TA orientation session. She is from
ICC and coordinates these services for graduate students. When Sandy Vella was
academic personnel coordinator, she talked quite a bit with people exploring
the profession.The Professional Issues
committee will put out a call to look at working with the ICC.

c. LAUC-D Bylaws

Discussion centered on bylaws items concerning the Nominations and Elections
committee.There is no indication in
the LAUC-D Bylaws that the LAUC-D Vice-chair is an ex officio member.The Nominations and Elections committee is
NOT a standing committee.Bob
Heyer-Gray will look at statewide Bylaws to see if LAUC-D mirrors statewide on
this.Briefly discussed Daryl
Morrison's proposal for the Nomination and Election committee to have a
chair/vice-chair structure similar to all other LAUC-D committees and how to go
about this.LAUC-D Bylaws change for
this will be need to made to Article X.Bob will check with LAUC statewide parlimentarian Paul ??? from UCSD
concerning whether any problems with this proposed change.Pointed out that LAUC-D bylaws should always
be looked at when LAUC-D leadership transition occurs.

d. LAUC-D
funds/budget/expenditures

Short discussion about whether a "treasurer" position would be
useful. This could be a stable position with responsibility for quarterly
reportson the LAUC-D funds.Daniel
Goldstein pointed out that Cindy Castaneda from Library Accounting made a
useful presentation to the Executive Board last year on how to read the
expenditure reports.Three key
committees that could use this information are the Program committee, Research
committee and the Professional Activities committee.

e. Questions for SOPAG?

Suggestions (to bring to SOPAG for Fall LAUC Assembly discussion) from
LAUC-D Executive Board members were that communication patterns be looked at
for better flow from SOPAG and that it should be required to have Executive
Summaries for the all voluminous SOPAG reports.

f. Agenda/Date for General
Membership Meeting

Bob Heyer-Gray is still working on the date for the Fall LAUC-D General
membership meeting.He will e-mail the
membership, when determined.For this
meeting, Bob will ask Marilyn Sharrow to comment on the April 2004 SLASIAC report
on "Systemwide Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly
Information at the University of California" and what it means to UC Davis
libraries.Report located at: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/planning/library_strategy.pdf
[Date set for Friday, December 3, 2004 from 10am to noon in 1st floor
conference room, Shields Library]

5.Other

a. LAUC Fall Assembly

Assembly tasks reviewed for LAUC-D Executive Board members who will be
attending the Fall LAUC Assembly on Thursday, November 4th at UC Berkeley. Most
reports have been forwarded to Executive Board by Bob Heyer-Gray. One that will
need to be read is the Position Paper task force report.Bob will notify the LAUC-D membership when
the reports are up on the LAUC Fall Assembly website at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/fallassembly04/
Bob will also send an e-mail to the LAUC-D membership reminding them that all
are invited to the Fall Assembly which may be more of interest due to the
programmatic focus.

b. Next LAUC-D Executive
Board meeting

This will be rescheduled from November 12th -- probably again in the
morning. This meeting will be scheduled pending the scheduling of the date for
the LAUC-D General membership meeting.

ACTION: All LAUC-D Executive Board members should send any lengthy calendar
conflicts to Bob so that he can find the best date for the next Board meeting.